Migrate Collections from Manual to Automated

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Topic: Migrating Shopify product collections from manual to automated to fix miscategorized products caused by complex tagging.

  • Context: The store currently mixes manual (hand-curated) and automated (rule-based) collections. Over time, tag usage has become complex, leading to products appearing in the wrong collections.
  • Goal: Standardize all collections to automated and simplify/edit tags.
  • Key question: Is there an efficient, repeatable process or best practice to convert manual collections to automated and clean up tags, or must each product and collection be reviewed and updated one by one (A–Z), including duplicating collections where needed?
  • Latest update: The author followed up asking for suggestions.
  • Status: No responses yet; unresolved and seeking guidance on process and tools/best practices.
Summarized with AI on December 14. AI used: gpt-5.
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The collections on my website are a bit of a mess. I have a mix of manual collections and automated collections and over time tagging has got more complex, which has resulted in products showing in incorrect collections.

I want to streamline the collections on our site to all be automated and edit our tags.

Is anyone aware of a process that could help me streamline the process, or do I simply have to work my through my products and review tagging, then do the same for collections from A-Z and manually update/duplicate where necessary?

Thanks.

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Anyone got any suggestions?